Average of two strings in alphabetical/lexicographical order

Question

Suppose you take the strings \'a\' and \'z\' and list all the strings that come between them in alphabetical order: [\'a\',\'b\',\'c\' ... \'x\',\'y\',\'z\']. Take the midpoint

Answer 1

import math
def avg(str1,str2):
    y = ''
    s = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    for i in range(len(str1)):
        x = s.index(str2[i])+s.index(str1[i])
        x = math.floor(x/2)
        y += s[x]
    return y

print(avg('z','a')) # m
print(avg('aa','az')) # am
print(avg('cat','dog')) # chm

Still working on strings with different lengths... any ideas?